This will allow customers to run demanding data-driven applications in the cloud without the need for costly up-front capital investments. The availability of solid state storage, which is faster and more expensive than more traditional spinning disks, and has become a battleground with more companies adding the option as the price for SSDs falls, even in the laptops,

and making them ideally suited for transaction processing,and mobile and streaming applications that require low latency access to storage systems that can deliver tens of thousands of IOPS.

Netflix which is the largest commercial operation in the cloud must be very happy to hear this. If you ask me i don’t trust a hard disk drive.